@DaniCE: Josh Smith: If you put ten software architects into a room and have them discuss what the Model-View-Controller pattern is, you will end up with twelve different opinions. … — sllFeb 13 '12 at 20:30

@Ramhound so... I noticed that Hashim doesn't quite seem to like you. Naturally we need to deal with this at both sides but - mind if you could refrain from commenting on his posts? I mean, editing them in those cases would be fine and all, but this might be a way to reduce friction. Its not an official request or anything.

i will attempt to refrain from submitting comments to Hashims questions although I think it’s slightly unfair that because they have a problem I must do that. They have proven to be slightly paranoid with regards to me.

personally I really dislike the culture of question/answer authors being so possessive of not wanting others to edit them, even when the corrections are obvious, correct, and improve the Q or A... the edit function is there for a reason

people treat SE like a forum when it's supposed to be more like Wikipedia... instead we have the forum-like splatter of 10-15 answers, each with about 1/10th of the true answer, so to get a proper picture in your head of the best possible answer you have to assemble the jigsaw puzzle from at least several non-perfect answers

I am more then willing to edit the question for someone but in this case I still never got which case they were using. Wanted to look up the case and motherboard, see how many fans it had, and answer the question

@allquixotic the problem is when an edit changes the meaning in a significant way - that can impact the reputation (not just the "rep points" either) of the original author. And when multiple solutions are possible but merged into one answer it can also make voting/ranking less useful.

I need to programmatically insert a USB flash drive into a device. I have, effectively, only physical access to said device*. A script running on another device needs to connect the flash drive and disconnect it automatically w/ no physical movement

I think with these relays it'll fail in whichever direction it was last set

@Undo The only problem with this approach is it might not work without switching the data lines ... which is much harder. Before you buy anything, you should probably test it - just manually connect/disconnect the power line and see if it works :P

@JourneymanGeek I dunno, seems to be partially asking if those certifications require third-party testing (which to be sure is more of an EE.SE question, but ... context of laptop charger). That's not opinion.

@bwDraco this is about as "consumer" as ... I can't even think of a suitably non-consumer comparison

Look, 815 mm² die on the most advanced process TSMC has to offer. This cannot possibly be cheap to manufacture.

> 815 mm²

Do you realize how absurdly large this is?

Manufacturing cost increases exponentially with die size. Not only do you have fewer chips on each wafer, yields are significantly lower because similar defect rates will render a larger proportion of larger dies unusable.

So, let's say I'm adding a few (6) drives to the ongoing loft server, and I was wondering about SATA expansion.

Should I go for two PCI-to-SATAx4 or one PCIEv2-to-SATAx8 card? (in the spirit of the one-horse-sized duck vs one hundred suck-sized horses)

I'm a bit hazy on the details about lanes, throughput etc

The latter (PCIEv2) is more expensive, but it's a card that's hopefully going to sit in there working away for $years, so cost (over time) isn't the main consideration unless all other things are equal

discord is a voice and text chat program similar to Skype and Teamviewer. It's available both as a downloadable desktop application for Windows/Mac/Linux, and as an in-browser Web Application.
My recent question How do @everyone and @here work? What's the difference between them? currently has 2...

@StevenVascellaro that's not true; you may be able to customize your server from the client app, but the server is a conceptually separate entity owned/controlled by Discord... otherwise, if you shut down your PC, anyone else connected to your Discord server would get dropped